Book 3 Chapter VII Paragraph 5
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Sons begotten by a Súdra on women of higher castes are Ayogava, Kshatta, and Chandála; by a Vaisya, Mágadha, and Vaidehaka; and by a Kshatriya, Súta. But men of the, names, Súta and Mágadha, celebrated in the Puránas, are quite different and of greater merit than either Bráhmans or Kshatriyas. The above kinds of sons are pratiloma, sons begotten by men of lower on women of higher castes, and originate on account of kings violating all dharmas.